Strategy & Research · Track & Escalate
Market-moving deals caught before the press cycle
Every morning, Doe pulls new funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPO filings from Crustdata and assesses relevance to your business (potential customers, competitors, partners, or threats), then delivers a brief with implications and suggested actions.
Works acrossCrustdataSlack
What you get.
Every market-moving deal (funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPO filings) is pulled from Crustdata daily, assessed for relevance to your business, and delivered as a morning brief to Slack with implications and suggested actions before the press cycle catches up.
You found out about competitor funding from a LinkedIn post
The current process is scrolling TechCrunch over coffee, checking Crunchbase when you remember, scanning LinkedIn for fundraising announcements, and still missing half the deals that matter. A competitor raised $50M three weeks ago and you found out when their ads started showing up everywhere. A potential customer closed a Series B and your sales team didn't reach out during the expansion window. The deals that reshape your market are happening constantly, and you're catching them after the window to act has closed.
Even when someone on the team tracks this manually, they're spending 30+ minutes a day scanning, and the signal-to-noise ratio is brutal. 95% of funding announcements aren't relevant to your business, but the 5% that are can be critical if you catch them in time. A new competitor getting resourced, a customer entering a growth phase, a partner becoming an acquisition target. These moments have a shelf life, and by the time they hit your feed organically, competitors have already responded.
What changes.
- 01Detection speedBefore · Days to weeks after the announcementWith Doe · Next-morning delivery of overnight deals
- 02Relevance accuracyBefore · You decide what matters while skimming headlinesWith Doe · AI-scored relevance based on your competitive market
- 03Manual scanning timeBefore · 30+ minutes daily across multiple sourcesWith Doe · Zero. Brief arrives in Slack at 8 AM
- 04ActionabilityBefore · Raw news with no context or next stepsWith Doe · Each deal comes with an implication brief and suggested action
- 05CoverageBefore · Whatever shows up in your feedWith Doe · Full deal flow from Crustdata across all markets
How Doe monitors funding and M&A activity
- 01Pulls overnight funding rounds, M&A deals, and IPO filingsCrustdataDoe retrieved deals matching your industry, geography, and deal-size filters — each with company details, investors, and deal terms
- 02Scores each deal for relevance to your businessDoeDoe classified each deal: customer entering a growth phase, competitor getting resourced, acquisition target, or emerging threat — and filtered out the noise
- 03Researches each relevant company and maps implicationsDoeDoe profiled what each company does, who they compete with, their growth trajectory, and how the deal shifts your market position
- 04Drafts action recommendations per dealDoeDoe produced a brief for each relevant deal: opportunity or threat, what it means for your business, and a suggested next step (reach out, brief the team, or monitor)
- 05Posts the morning deal brief to #strategySlackDeals ranked by relevance and urgency, each with a one-line implication and recommended action
- 06RecurringDaily at 8:00 AMEvery morning, Doe pulls overnight deal activity from Crustdata, filters for relevance, researches each company, and delivers an implication brief ranked by urgency. Over time, the accumulated deal intelligence builds a picture of where capital is flowing in your market and which players are consolidating. Brief delivered to #strategy in Slack.
Up and running in under ten minutes.
- 01Connect your toolsOne-click OAuth for each integration. No API keys, no engineering.
- 02Describe what you need“Track all Series A+ funding rounds and acquisitions in the dev tools and infrastructure space, US and Europe. Flag anything involving our top 10 competitors or companies selling to engineering leaders.”
- 03It runs on scheduleRuns every morning and posts a ranked deal brief to your team channel before your first meeting.
Before you delegate.
- 01What data sources does Crustdata cover?Crustdata aggregates funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPO filings from SEC filings, press releases, investor announcements, and proprietary data sources. Coverage spans global markets with particularly deep data on North American and European deal flow.
- 02Can Doe track specific companies for deal activity?Yes. You can create a watchlist of specific companies (competitors, customers, partners) and Doe will flag any deal involving them with a dedicated alert, separate from the daily market brief.
- 03How does Doe determine relevance to our business?Doe scores relevance based on your competitive profile: industry overlap, customer segment alignment, geographic proximity, and deal type. A Series B in your exact market segment scores higher than a mega-round in an adjacent vertical. You can tune the scoring criteria as your strategy evolves.
- 04Does Doe cover international markets?Yes. Crustdata covers global deal flow, and Doe can filter by specific geographies or monitor worldwide. International deals are summarized in English regardless of the source language.
- 05Can Doe alert in real-time for specific companies instead of a daily digest?Yes. For watchlisted companies, Doe can send an immediate Slack notification when a deal is detected, rather than batching it into the morning brief. Useful for tracking your top competitors or key accounts.